(Part 1 of 2) Shannon Jones — folklorist and historian — describes the often uneasy relationship between religion, polite culture and the occult during the Victorian era – a time of intense interest in ghost stories and the supernatural!
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Researcher Ronald Murphy, author of “On Vampires”, explains how vampires and other dark figures have evolved and shaped the beliefs of world civilizations for thousands of years — from Lillith, Adam’s first wife, on up to recent use as a tool for negative propaganda against immigrant populations and cultures.
Later on in this episode, Ronald Murphy and James Poston, our in-house horror movie expert, discuss vampire movies past and present, good and …. sometimes bad!
Does the ancestral memory of man still hold remnants of yesteryear’s bogeymen? Taking a page from the works of psychiatrist Carl Jung, many researchers believe that cryptids and accounts of seemingly impossible creatures are not beyond the realm of reality: they auditioned for, but never quite got the part in a movie known as evolution.
Today we speak with cryptozoologist Ronald Murphy, author of the new book: “On Vampires”. As you will soon learn, the “vampire” figure represents FAR more than what we have seen in the cinema — it has profoundly influenced the cultural history of civilizations for thousands of years.
A fortunate confluence of environment (Ron is a native of western PA — home to legends such as Bigfoot) and natural curiosity jump started Ron’s worldwide trek in search of the “‘other’: creatures of the periphery, who haunt the liminal regions of our civilized world “.
Jason Guffey is a noir photographer whose Victorian era tintype equipment renders dark, atmospheric images that elude the binary ones and zeroes of modern digital cameras.
Wandering lost in ideas and with no way to harness them in a way he saw fit, Jason began searching for a darker style photography outlet to express himself. Searching the interwebs, Jason saw what he observed as the perfect images and expression. He found this in his now friend, idol, and mentor’s work, John Santerineross.
Join us as we explore the world of dark imagery with a dedicated enthusiast of the paranormal.
